Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.
The over curious are not over wise.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!
Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.